boas] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 617 
peel off all the cedar-bark of a || young cedar-tree, the young cedar 
would die, and then another | cedar-tree near by would curse the 
bark-peeler, so that he would also die. Therefore | the bark- 
peelers never take all the bark off of a young tree. | 
Customs RELATING TO THE FELLING OF TREES 
Now I will talk about him who will work at | porpoise-hunting 
The canoe-builder is first asked by the porpoise-hunter (of a | small ca- 
noe) to build a hunting-canoe. | The canoe-builder goes at once back 
into the woods to a place where|| the cedar for canoe-building is stand- 
ing, for each canoe-builder always has a straight cedar in the woods 
picked out for canoe-building. He just walks right there, | carrying 
his axe, going to the place where the cedar-tree is standing. | He looks 
for the place where the cedar will lie when it falls. | When he sees all 
the branches on the outer side of the cedar-tree, he || chops through 
the foot of the tree on the back of the cedar-tree; and as soon as he 
has chopped deep into it, | he takes four chips and throws | them 
behind the foot of the cedar-tree; and as he throws them, he says: | 
“QO, supernatural one! now follow your supernatural power!” | 
Then he takes another chip, throws it, || and says as he is throwing 
it: ““O, friend! now you see | your leader, who says that you shall 
turn your head and fall there also.” | 
gwankmaeéexs g'il’maé ‘wilgiteloyowéda ts!aqemsé lax ogwida‘yasa 
dzks‘kqwaxs laé tn‘léda dzms‘eqwe. Wa, laéda makcililsé ogt‘la 
dzgs*bq" hinx*widxa sEnq!énoxwé qa dgwagqés Ip‘la. Wi, hé‘mis 
lagitas k-!és ‘wilg iteloyowé ts!aqumsas yisa sEnq!énoxwée. 
Customs RELATING TO THE FELLING oF TREES 
Wa, la‘men gwa’gwex's‘alat la’xa @’axalixés alé’xwaenéLaxa 
k-!o/lot!é. Wi, hé’em gil axk:'!a/lasd‘sa alé’wenoxwa_ 1é’q !éno- 
xwaxa xXwa’xwagtim, qa Lé’x‘édéséx alé/wats!i xwaé’xwagtima. 
Wii, hé’x-‘ida‘mésa Lé’q!énoxwé la a’Lé‘sta la’xa a’L!é lax La’dza- 
sasés ‘wé’lsa we’lkwa qaxs ‘na’xwatmaé we’ldzadéda_ Leé’Elq !éno- 
xwaxa 6/k-été welk" la’xa a’L!é. Wa, 4’*mése hé’x-dzénala la qa’- 
sida da’laxés sd’bayowé qa‘s li lax La’dzasasés wé’lsé wé’lkwa. 
Wa, li dd’qwalax gwé’xtox‘widaas La’sa wé’lkwe qo t!a’x-‘idLo. 
Wii, gi’l'mésé do’ qitlaqéxs ‘wi'laé L!a’sot !ena‘yéda wé/tts!anis. Wa, 
li sep!px6’d a’Lot!exa’watyasa we'lkwe. Wa, gi’l’mésé k!wiibrte 
s0/pafyasexs la’é da’x‘idxa mOd’/sgEmstoweé so’yapmuta qa‘s nEp!é’- 
désa ‘ne/mé lax a/Lot!Exawa‘yasa we’lkwé. Wa, li ‘nég-EtE°we’xs la’é 
nEpa’: “Wa ‘nawalakwa’, lan’ms lat la’sgemilxés ‘na’walagimos.”’ 
Wii, li @’t!léd da’x*idxa ‘ne’mé so’yapmuta qa‘s nEp!é’dés. 
Wii, la’xaé ‘nég-Etewe’xs la’é nepa’: ‘Wii, qisti’, lan’ms do’qt- 
laxés gwa’yi‘lalasds ‘né’k-éxs hé’Laqos gwé’xtox‘widLé laa’sas.”’ 
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